Word: faddishness
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...factors have forced this move: a general depletion of alumni aid, and a disappearance of HAA assistance. The alumni contribution has declined because the Band is no longer a glamorous post-war novelty, and though its marching and music are just as bright, its faddish aspect has worn off. The HAA support has fallen from $2000 in 1946 to twice at all for next year. A meagre turnout for the Virginia concert, and a University disapproval of a commercially-sponsored summer tour, point to University Hall as the only...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
...Brien was often labeled arbitrary, faddish, "plot-shy," and he made no secret of his liking for Chekhovian sketches and vignettes with a narrative content approaching zero. One of the stories in this collection-by Arthur Kober, dialectician laureate of The Bronx-is just a monologue by an offensively smug hash-house proprietor. Many are written in the fashionable (since Hemingway) stark-simple style which, slightly overdone, approximates baby talk. Thus John Fante (A Nun No More): "My mother cried and cried night and day. They couldn't stop her. . . . Finally Grandma Toscana called the priest. . . . Right away...
Billings William Robinson '43Mrs. Billings Claire Johnson K. D.Mrs. Batterson Charlotte ArmstrongJohnson Rich'd W'chm'nn '43Faddish Michael Millen '44Leonora Faddish Claire Johnston K. D.Makintosh Leonard Kent '43Frederick John Turner '44Purser John Rand '43A. Negro Marshall Durgin '44Steward George Fowler '43Dathis Albert Field 2GLooton Donald Fine...
...architecture and design. A fact long apparent to thoughtful people was that there is often something fake, ill-fitting and hothouse about the designs for public buildings and monuments which graduates of great architectural schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century, isolated architects of talent were lost in a great drive of construction at any cost. New standards of design...